Fed: Unions call for $25-a-wk increase for working poor
By Jane Williams, Industrial Correspondent
MELBOURNE, Feb 8 AAP - Australia's low paid workers are seeking a $25-a-week pay riseafter unions said a negligible award boost last year cut real wages by about half a percent.
Unions today said last year's $13-a-week pay rise - an increase of about 2.5 per cent- was less than inflation, which stood at three per cent and further contributed to thewidening gap between rich and poor.
The ACTU lodged its 2002 Living Wage claim in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission(AIRC) today calling on the commission to drop its "excessively …
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